For our first summer vacation as a family ever, we decided to head to Southern California and enjoy a little bit of sand, sun and some Disney. We flew down with my sister, her husband and their little munchkin, Ayden. We survived the flight (barely) by feeding Cael little bits of Cinnabon almost the whole time. Fortunately for Shaun and I, we ran Cael ragged all week, so he decided to take advantage of the downtime and napped on the flight home (Hallelujah!).
The first couple days we decided to do the Disneyland thing. I felt like a ten year old kid again! What is it about that place that makes me feel so excited? Perhaps it's the memories, but as we walked to the park the first night, I was absolutely giddy with excitement.
What made Disneyland especially fun is that we were able to meet up with my brother and his cute family and enjoy some Disney magic all together. Avery was super excited to meet the princesses and Ayden thought he'd died and gone to heaven when he met Lightning McQueen and Mater! Mason was just rarin' to go each morning and Taylor was her gorgeous little self. We had so much fun, but all Cael wanted to do was crawl around on the ground. He was almost walking, but not quite, and wanted to be able to move around independently--which meant crawling. Clean as Disneyland is, it still isn't a place you'd want your child crawling around on the ground.
After Disneyland (and California Adventure), we visited Universal Studios. I think we could sum Universal Studios up by simply saying that it's not nearly as fun as I remembered.
The next day we drove down to San Diego and spent the last few days of our vacation at the San Diego Zoo, Seal Beach and Sea World.
By the end of the week, we were all so exhausted, we could hardly put one foot in front of another. However, we had so much fun and are looking forward to many more family vacations to come.
Here are some pics of our trip.
